The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-11
ITEMS In THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

A Methodist Church Organized at VIII
lacoochee $500 Darien's Timber Bust
ness-Brooks and Lowndes County
Flooding the Markets with Water
melons-Irouble over a Railroad Site
at Valdosta.
GEORGIA.
The location of the new town near Adel
is not vet fixed.
Crops of every kind are in fine condition
in Brooks county.
Sargents Factory, at Newman, has shut
down for month.
The Valdosta Base Ball Club will play
Jesup on July Is.
The people are anxious for another arte
sian well in Darien.
The rice crops on the Altamaha continue
TO be i'll tip-top condition.
Mai. West says he PANIED gold off M. B.
Sprewell's place, near Carrollton, 40 years
ago.
George Roberts Of Gibson has great hopes
of making a fortune on a cotton chopper he
has invented.
Alapaha is eighteen years old, and there
are just eighteen families who own their
homes there.
nOIlaS ID. OuuS, VI SlilIlJtfl
forty-four fine beeveS and 102 sheep to
Savannah last week.
The Mcintosh Dragons are getting ready
TO order their handsome new uniforms,
which will cost 81 600
During the month of June 100000 feet
of square and scab timber was measured at
the public boom in Darien.
Nothing but a hundred room hotel on the
raging old Altamaha will suit the Darion
Gazette when the railroad is completed.
Joe CASTOR of Carrollton, says that he
gained four and half pounds in one week
from drinking water shipped from Southern
Arkansas.
The annual catalogue of the West Geor-
gia Agricultural and Mechanical College is
now in press and will be ready for distribu-
ton in a short while
The health of Darien is now excellent. 1t
always has been good, in later years, at
least, but so far this summer not even a Sc
we're bilious attack has been heard of.
A good deal of timber is cut up the river
and ready to be RATED down to the Darien
market. If the timber could be secured
Darien would do good business during the
summer months
A difficulty occurred in the northwestern
portion of Brooks county several days since
between w. B. Drew and his father, Viii
liam Drew William Drew was badly, but
not seriously cut.
On July Jonathan Studstill died at his
old homestead in Lowndes, where he had
lived nearly half a century, aged so years
8 months and week. Mr.. Studstill was
one of the first settlers.
A lumber kiln belonging to Mr.. Miller, of
Carrolton, was burned last Saturday night
He lost IL 900 feet of good dry lumber, and
it was only by faithful work that his saw
mill and machinery was saved.
Last week was the tight week in the
melon traffic. If the markets do not break
with the quantity shipped from Lowndes
and Brooks counties, the sales for the bal
ance of the season will continue good
w. w. Randall, for several years past
connected with the Palatka (Fla.) NetCs, has
accepted the position of business manager
and assistant editor of the Griffin S,tp, and
will make his home in that city in future.
With good and paying watermelon
crop, with fine corn and cotton crop al
most now assured, and a new railroad now
certain, Valdosta and Lowndes county
have every reason to be happy and thank
full
Up TO Friday, according to figures fur
nished by e. s. Remington, express agent,
there had been shipped from Townsville
1881 crates of LeConte pears The bulk of
.
Capt Varnedoe shipped carload west this
week. Good prices are being realized.
Prof. Charles Lovejoy, who has been
elected principal of the Valdosta Institute
with his assistant, Prof. Clark, who is also
an experienced educator, and graduate of
the university of Virginia, were in Valdos-
Ia Wednesday and Thursday last looking
out for the interest of the school, which win
open about Sept. l.
Commissioner Henderson on Friday col
lected for the farmers convention some
thing over SO, running the total contribu-
tions up to date to nearly $3.50. The COM
missioner will keep at the work until the
necessary amount is raised Hon j. s.
Newman, of Alabama, has been selected as
ossayist TO represent that State in the open
ing essays to be read at the convention.
Committees from the several oranges in
Harris county met Tuesday morning and
decided to hold mass meeting at Kings
boro on Thursday, July q, to which all
who are in sympathy with the grange move
ment are invited. The location is central
and accessible, so that large crowd will
probably be on hand. All who attend will
be expected to bring well-filled baskets
Col S. Ii. Hawkins has sold all of his real
estate except his residence in Americas 10
the Americas Investment Company. The
Colonel thought the Americas, Preston and
IlllIlpkln railroad ana the Bank OF Amprl-
Gus was enough for one man to worry over,
and he has sold four or five plantations and
thousands of acres of land and city property
to large amount, so as to have some rest.
G. w. Herring, carpenter, who has for
some time been working on Thomas Rays
new residence at Naldosta, suffered n pain
full accident Monday. He was standing on
tall bench, and losing his balance fell sew.
eral feet across smaller one below. striking
his side and breaking several ribs and other,
wise bruising himself up He left last Tues
day night for his home in Tallahassee, Fla,
While not necessarily dangerous, the wound
is painful one and will lay him up for sew.
eral months.
Last week a Methodist Church was organ
lied at Willacoochee with a membership OF
about tlfty-two A revival was begun al
that place ON June %, and continued until
the Sunday night following Rev. H. T.
Ethridge, the pastor was ably assisted by
Rev. j. NJ Foster, Of Alapaha, and Rev.
w. J. Stallings Of Blackshear There were
twenty-five additions TO the church There
have been $500 raised toward building a
church, and the land upon which to build il
has been donated.
Messrs. Dasher, Powell and Hunt, of Val
dosta loaded train of fifteen cars with
melons Friday and shipped them in bulk
through 10 Boston TO Chaplin Bros They
20 by the Atlantic Coast Line on a special
schedule and will be delivered In Boston
within eighty hours from the time they loft
I'll d.